Anyone planning on buying a 2017 F-350?
I had planned on ordering a new 2016 F-350 to haul our old Lance or a new 1062, but I waited around too long. I've never been fond of buying a brand new model vehicle.
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Wagonqueen Truckster wrote:HMS Beagle wrote:
The '15 is worlds apart from my '99.
For the better?
Yes, for the most part. Not in love with the smog equipment, but it is very quiet, more comfortable, and heavier duty in most respects. Nearly double the power and torque, the transmission is 6 rather than 4 speeds and actually knows when to shift rather than just guessing. Fuel mileage so far seems about the same.
A couple of things on the '17: the chassis cab will not have a boxed frame aft of the cab. Not sure about the 450 with a bed. My concern with aluminum is not corrosion, but cracking (aluminum has very different fatigue properties than steel and some trucks with steel are cracking); also paint, very hard to keep paint on aluminum. Secondary concern is repair, costs about twice as much according the consumer reports, some insurance companies are charging more as a result. I hope that Ford will have these potential problems handled, they do have the 150 behind them so some experience. I have some experience in manufacturing high volume products, and from that I know that even if you build several thousand prototypes and test the hell out of them, when you build a couple of million and sell them to actual users you sometimes learn what you didn't know.
